The beginnings of naturalism in the english novel

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Text from page 3: "By the words "scientific observation" a picture
of the laboratory is ca1led up. However, life cannot be
reduced to the small limits of a scientist's workshop; thus
the naturalistic writer uses the statistical and case method
of research: he makes a study of cases as he sees them and
carefully tabulates results. The true naturalist just as
cheerfully accepts all the factors and just as carefully keeps
himself out of the final results as does the physicist or chemist.
It is life, and not his own feeling for it, that he aims
to present."